I am not sure whether what we faced has any relationship to this. In any case, let me reply with our experience. Maybe it is useful :-)
The installer is Install Shield based and not MSI. We were installing Windows Service on 2008 R2 as part of overall install. The services were using path environment variable for locating DLL. The path environment variable was modified directly in the registry during the install session when the services were also being installed. However, the Windows 2008 R2 did not seem to see the path information. This used to work in earlier version of Windows. We ended up having to write a workaround finally. -----Original Message----- From: Navid Azimi-Garakani [mailto:naz...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 1:36 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall does nothing in WiX 3.5? Is anyone aware of a regression with ServiceInstall with WiX 3.5.1623.0? I seem to be unable to get a simple Windows service to install. The MSI does not fail and I do not get anything useful in the logs. I am trying to install on Windows Server 2008 R2 (which only ships in 64-bit). Here is the relevant snippet of my .wxs: <Component Id="$(var.ProjectName)ServiceInstaller" Guid="C5A1BE3B-C831-4220-A184-81797B2C9F48"> <CreateFolder /> <ServiceInstall Id="$(var.ProjectName)ServiceInstall" Name="$(var.ProjectName)Host" DisplayName="$(var.ProjectName)" Type="ownProcess" Start="auto" ErrorControl="normal" Description="Dynamics Online $(var.ProjectName)" Account="NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE" Vital="yes" /> <ServiceControl Id="$(var.ProjectName)ServiceControl" Name="$(var.ProjectName)Host" Stop="both" Wait="yes" Remove="uninstall" /> </Component> The log file shows that the actions are being executed but nothing happens. I examined my MSI in Orca and it looks like everything is setup correctly in the ServiceInstall and ServiceControl tables. I originally thought the problem was that the default condition was VersionNT instead of VersionNT64 but changing that had no effect. Here's the relevant portion of the log: Action start 22:30:45: InstallFiles. MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:45:962]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Patch MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:45:962]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Patch 4: SELECT `Patch`.`File_`, `Patch`.`Header`, `Patch`.`Attributes`, `Patch`.`Sequence`, `Patch`.`StreamRef_` FROM `Patch` WHERE `Patch`.`File_` = ? AND `Patch`.`#_MsiActive`=? ORDER BY `Patch`.`Sequence` MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:45:962]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:45:962]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECT `Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 1302 MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:45:962]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: MsiSFCBypass MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:45:962]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: MsiSFCBypass 4: SELECT `File_` FROM `MsiSFCBypass` WHERE `File_` = ? MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:45:962]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: MsiPatchHeaders MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:45:962]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: MsiPatchHeaders 4: SELECT `Header` FROM `MsiPatchHeaders` WHERE `StreamRef` = ? MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:45:964]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: PatchPackage MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:45:964]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: MsiPatchHeaders MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:45:964]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: PatchPackage Action ended 22:30:46: InstallFiles. Return value 1. MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:46:016]: Doing action: InstallServices MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:46:016]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: ActionText Action start 22:30:46: InstallServices. Action ended 22:30:46: InstallServices. Return value 1. MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:46:020]: Doing action: StartServices MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:46:020]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: ActionText Action start 22:30:46: StartServices. Action ended 22:30:46: StartServices. Return value 1. The sequence conditions were updated as such: <InstallExecuteSequence> <StopServices>VersionNT64</StopServices> <DeleteServices>VersionNT64</DeleteServices> <InstallServices>VersionNT64</InstallServices> <StartServices>VersionNT64</StartServices> </InstallExecuteSequence> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Navid ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
